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Fake Human Sacrifice at CERN

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2016-08-19 21:13:43
Career & Education

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has launched an investigation into a video filmed at night on its Geneva campus depicting a mock ritual human sacrifice, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

The bizarre video which has circulated online for days shows several individuals in black cloaks gathering in a main square at Europe's top physics lab, in what appears to be a re-enactment of an occult ceremony.

The video includes the staged "stabbing" of a woman.

[...] "CERN does not condone this type of spoof, which can give rise to misunderstandings about the scientific nature of our work,"

Publish or perish ... it seems like some may take things too far.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/18/fake-human-sacrifice-filmed-at-cern-with-pranking-scientists-suspected [theguardian.com]
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-european-lab-probes-fake-human.html [phys.org]


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